Ok, now that it's everywhere, or at least relatively commonplace, time to comment on the "twist" on this season's Survivor.
Apparently the tribes are four tribes of five, racially divided into asians, latinos, blacks, and whites. This is a move for attention apparently from CBS because the not only get to use the word "race" a lot, but get to be high and mighty saying it's a social experiment and racism is not a motive.
I don't think there's anything racist about the split, I don't think it'll be really that much more interesting to watch, unless racist people are put on the show as contestants. It'll be like high school, clique-y. Which is what happens with tribes on Survivor anyways. Woo.
The actual problem I have with this set-up is it's obviously half-assed and won't really matter. Look at the numbers and think about last year's four tribes of four. The four tribes last year ended after one episode, three game days. Then they became two tribes as per usual. This year with the tribes of 20, the most they can technically hold out is three episodes before combining into two or three larger tribes. Once three eliminations occur one tribe could end up with two people, a voting block situation.
So yeah, nice try Survivor, but the four tribes thing can't really be done well without a whole bunch of people. At that point you need to balance number of people with how much you think the audience will remember each one. That's also "The Biggest Loser's" deal with its newest season coming up, with 50 initial contestants, one from each state. You can pretty much bet that after three episodes you'll be down to about a dozen or less so you can go to a personal level with each contestant, each episode.
That's it, seeya.
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but what do you think of flavor of love? where the strategies include... slapping and yelling, mostly.
Wellllll seeing as I've never watched it and only heard the horror stories and basic concept.... I'd say it's nothing that would interest me at all. I wish I could make a TV show that started with someone yelling my name and wearing oversized clocks. LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEX!
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Did you watch? I haven't watched "Survivor" since the first season, when
I hit the wall of boredom at a competition over who could stand on a stump
longest. But I was intrigued by the daring decision to divide the contestants
into race-based teams. How would that work? In some ways, race is neutralized,
because teammates voting against each other have only those of their own
race to turn against. On the other hand, the team members had the burden of
knowing that millions of twink models
would be watching them and thinking about their entire race.
It was interesting the way the Hispanic team seemed to pull together right
away and simply feel advantaged. The gay black twink team felt team spirit
and actuallystopped to do a cheer about how they were all black, but they
didn't really pull together. Nathan interviewed that black people don't like to be told
what to do, and two of the women got very close quickly, leaving the third
woman feeling like an outsider. The Asian team took account of how they
really weren't a uniform group. They were from different parts of Asia,
and that mattered. The Vietnamese immigrant, Cao Boi, called attention to
chinese twinks status: He really belongs with hippies. In the funniest scene,
he cures another guy of a headache by pulling the "bad wind" out of his
face and leaving a red mark. Meanwhile, on the white team, they catch two
chickens and a woman called Flicka bumbles into letting them escape.
And they're all scantily clad and really cold, so they form a
"cuddle puddle" to sleep (and get sexual).
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